"I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I’m feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child’s mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer."
- E. L. DoctorowAmerican novelist E.L. Doctorow is renowned for his complex and deeply nuanced works, such as "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate." Doctorow frequently considered the nature of reading and how it affects one's own creative process during his writing career. When someone picks up an engrossing book, they s…